Not to go against the wave here, but I and the 100+ folks at Ft Hood who were laid off in March 2013 plus the additional 1000 across the Army in the US would beg to differ with the report of only one job lost.

I can't speak for the rest of the government workers, but in my office we were all retired Army folks who continued to support our soldiers as they deployed to war. And I would say that we did not vote for the current regime. Plus we worked for a part of the government that is actually mentioned in the Constitution.

Much of the Democratic Party enterprise of the past 8 years has been protection racket behavior.

The public workforce gives the Dems their votes, campaign contributions, and campaign work, and in exchange the Dems have shielded the publicly funded (welfare, pensioners, public functionaries, grant/subsidy recipients) from any effects of the Great Recession.

The publicly funded always demand to share when the private economy grows but will fight literally to the death (see the recent behavior of NPS or BLM thugs) to share one thin dime in sacrifice when the economy slacks.

This is especially evil considering that the public workforce has violated the social contract they have with private enterprise. The deal was that in exchange for the thing they value most in the universe (guarantees of their magic paychecks) they would take a VASTLY lower salary than the average private worker and a MODEST pension. By demanding and thuggishly taking a pay scale equal to or larger than (in CA it is 30% larger) private workers, they broke the contract. Now they get the guarantees and give up nothing for them.

Go to a local NMFS or HUD or NEA or BLM office, or any government office building, for that matter, and observe the effects of a guaranteed lifetime income with no real metrics on human behavior. Show up whenever, read the paper for a bit, go to a few meetings, do what it takes to make it look like your job is necessary, go home, rinse, repeat. For high five figure or six figure pay scale. The Stimulus was never about rescuing the private economy. Never. Ever. It was about bribing these people with their comfortable high paying jobs and subsidies to stay on the Democratic Party plantation, period.

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